CBMM

Neldson Marcolin

Retrospect

Laboratory in the forest

Theodoro Peckolt was a pioneer in the chemical analysis of Brazilian flora in the 19th century

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The plastic age

A hundred years ago, the first synthetic resin was invented

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Rupture in the University

40 years ago, 79% of the professorsof the innovative UnB resigned in protest against the military intervention and the expulsion of teaching staff

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Routes of Electricity

First Brazilian hydroelectric power plant to generate power for the population was inaugurated 116 years ago

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Technology and art

511 years ago, Italian Aldo Manuzio was beginning to reinvent the printed book

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Esoteric chemistry

To the joy of historians, manuscripts by Isaac Newton about alchemy are rediscovered

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Difficult to tame

Since the 18th century, people have been trying to generate energy from the sea

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Fire and iron

In the interior of Sao Paulo, the two-hundred-year old Ipanema steel mill is restored

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Central do Brasil Station began to be built 150 years ago

Central do Brasil Station began to be built 150 years ago

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A long journey

Some one hundred and thirty years ago the trajectory of the first Brazilian women doctors began

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Among the stars

The work of César Lattes, who died at eighty years, was fundamental for the detection of the pi meson

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Waters tamed

Thirty years ago, work started on Itaipu, the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world

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New life in Bahia

The first agricultural school in Latin America should become a university

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At last, in print

After decades of attempts, the first volumes of the complete work of Adolpho Lutz are launched

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History

Knowledge in vogue

An exhibit of scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries

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News from the New World

Before the naturalists, there was already a concern with describing Brazil's animals and plants

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A sage in the jungle

A century and a half ago, Fritz Müller, one of the world's great naturalists, arrived in Brazil - to stay

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The history of a brand

How Gurgel managed to make totally Brazilian cars

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The defeat of pain

In 1846, ether began to be used officially in anesthesia

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Centenarian and reinvigorated

São Paulo Historical and Geographic Institute completes 110 years with renewal

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The light of the genius

Optics, by Newton, completes 300 years just as important as when it was published

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Festival

Music for God

Students and professors meet to celebrate baroque repertoire

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Union by science

CERN completes 50 years as a successful example of international cooperation

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Museum with seven lives

A pioneer in the Amazon, the Emílio Goeldi has been reborn several times in its 138 years

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Fair and barbarous province

200 years ago, São Paulo was tamed by scientific expeditions

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Drinking water

A hundred years ago, the first filters fitted into earthenware containers appeared

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Precision and reason in art

590 years ago, Brunelleschi rediscovered linear perspective

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Memory

A promising start

At the early age of 20, Oswaldo Cruz published his first work

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Tropical apprenticeship

140 years ago, the Bahian Tropicalist School was born

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Life in the shape of a corkscrew

50 years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick revealed the structure of DNA

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